Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Rulemaking

In addition to representing IRS tax whistleblowers like world’s largest IRS Tax Fraud whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto’s partners have been in the forefront of seeking to enhance the legal protections for tax whistleblowers, and have filed rule-making petitions to the IRS to strengthen the tax whistleblower program.

IRS tax fraud whistleblowers

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto’s experienced tax fraud whistleblower attorneys filed the following briefs in support of IRS whistleblower rights:

November 29, 2012: KKC filed an extensive brief on behalf of the National Whistleblower Center before the IRS strongly urging it to reward whistleblowers who exposed criminal tax frauds.
February 19, 2013: KKC authored an 84-page comment, on behalf of the NWC, on the proposed IRS whistleblower rules, strongly opposing the criminal disqualification.
April 16, 2013: One of our tax whistleblower attorneys testified at the IRS rule-making hearing opposing the criminal reward disqualification.
June 5, 2014: We provided the Secretary of Treasury with and exhaustive 55-page scholarly article co-authored by KKC Partner Stephen M. Kohn and Dean Zerbe, Partner in Zerbe, Miller, Fingeret, Frank & Jadav, that explained in detail the legal basis as to why the criminal reward disqualification was illegal and should not be approved by the IRS. A copy of this article, published in Tax Notes, is linked here.
Finally, Dean Zerbe and Steve Kohn, through their respective law firms, agreed to work with the legal team representing anonymous whistleblowers 21276/77-13W, in order to ensure that the IRS program properly implemented the whistleblower reward law, and criminal fines and penalties were included in any reward calculation.